St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-10
DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
A Home for the s0ldiers--The Fight
Over the Sioux Falls Bill.

"A AEGASLAVUHE.
A Home for the soldiers--The Fight
Over the sioux Falls Bill.
Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, ID. T., Feb. 7.-Dr. Stew
arts bill, as amended yesterday, appropri-
ating $50, 600 for the building of soldiers
home at Hot Springs, came up for final
passage in the house to-day. L. Moore, of
Sully, the Oldest member of that body,
whose scalp for the most part is a bleak
and barren waste, pranced round over the
neck of the man who introduced the bill,
stepping up in the air about six feet at
every jump. He claimed that he was an
old soldier and had carried musket and
masticated raw pork for the benefit of the
people, and his sympathies were with the
old veterans, but he did not see how the
people of the territory dbuld afford to
build hospital fosk them now.
He said his constituents had sent
him to the legislature astride an economical
plank, and he proposed to play horse with
that plank until the session adjourned
Down in Sully county the farmers were suf-
fering, and many of them were obliged to
use flax seed and buffalo chips for fuel, and
they needed seed in the spring with which
to sow their farms. He favored the passage
of the bill introduced by Williams, of Bur-
leigh. approprating 500, 900 for the pur-
chase of seed wheat for the benefit of the
farmers. He asserted that there had been
trading on this bill between combination,
and it was about time that the legislature
settled down to legitimate business and
quit making trading post OF itself. He
said he had understood that those who
voted for the bill could get passes to Hot
Springs over the railroad, but he feared
that those men who voted to saddle the eX-
ira debt ON the shoulders of the people
would find
A MUCH HOTTER PLACE
than Hot Springs when they returned to
their constituents. Mr.. Shook. of Mime
waukan. claimed that he was young SOL
dier, had fought in the war five years and
that the soldiers of the territory of Dakota
were entitled to shelter in case they
needed one. The fact that the people of
Sully county had to burn flax seed and
buffalo chips cut no figure in the case. If
they didn't want to burn fuel of that kind
let them go to some other portion of the
territory where they could raise crops and
burn wood or coal. The bill was
finally put to vote, and passed
on pinch, after which DIR.
Stewart, the father of it, was
stricken with terrible sick headache and
was obliged to leave the hall, and by so do
ing escaped voting on the passage
of the Sioux Falls election bill over
the governors veto. After the soldiers
home bill had been settled, the house went
into committee of the whole to consider the
Sioux Falls bill, which had been made
special order for 3 o'clock. The promised
fight turned the council loose in recess,
and the members came down to witness the
fun. The contest was between MentZer
and Sullivan against the passage of the bill
and Frank Aiken for, and the battle of
words was mighty interesting. Mentzer
wanted the bill referred to a special COM
mittee, and claimed that the house Should
not be too hasty in passing bill over the
governors veto, when the veto was made
on the ground that the act Of voting bonds
was illegal. The burden of Aiken'S plea
was that the people
WANTED THE BONDS ISSUED
and they had expressed themselves to that
effect at the polls. He insnuated that
fight was made on the bill simply to bull
doZe certain member of the council, Mr..
Grigsby. into supporting the Mitchell court
removal bill. From all that can be picked
up ON this strange sea of gossip this is the
fact, but Grigsby has curved his spine
acutely and swears by all the powers of
earth and heaven that the Mitchell bill shall
be irrevocably buried in the councils Gem
etery, and there is but little doubt that he
means what he says. After an acrobatic
exhibition of two hours over the bill it was
reported back to the house with a
| recommendation that it pass. Gil
bert moved a call of the house
and vote was taken. When the votes
We're counted the speaker announced that
the governors veto had been sustained by a
vote of 21 to 10. Immediately an informal
recess was taken and MentZer and Sullivan
roamed smilingly around the floor. with
another victory to their credit. When he
discovered that the bill would not pass, Gill
bert, the Sioux Falls representative, was all
broke up. and when Sullivan approached
him he shook his fist in his face and in
formed the gentleman from Aurora that he
didn't have any more use for him. But
this isn't personal matter" said Sullivan.
1T don't make any difference" said Gill
bert, II don't. want you to speak to me"
And from now out Mentzer and Sullivan
can count Gilbert as man who will
FIGHT THEM WITH COLD STEEL.
1t is claimed that the effort Of Mentzer
and Sullivan in their com bination with the
North to compel Grigsby to vote for the
Mitchell court removal bill will fail, as 300
business men of Sioux Falls, who pledged
themselves to pay the 100000 to the rail-
road, have told him to remain firm against it.
They will pay the money before they would